A detail view style is a named collection of settings that control the appearance of detail boundaries, identifiers, and labels of detail views.
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The settings that control the appearance of AutoCAD Mechanical toolset objects are saved to a named collection of settings known as the drafting standard. As such, the manner in which detail view styles apply to AutoCAD objects (model documentation detail views) is different to how they apply to AutoCAD Mechanical toolset objects (AMDETAIL detail views). Accordingly;
- Model documentation allows you to select an existing detail view and change its detail view style. AMDETAIL detail views do not permit this. They always follow the detail view style specified by the drafting standard. You can edit the settings of the detail view style, but you can't apply a different detail view style to an exiting AMDETAIL detail view.
- Model documentation allows you to override detail view style settings of an existing detail view. AMDETAIL detail views do not permit this. They always follow the detail view style specified by the drafting standard.
Each detail view style is considered a revision of the drafting standard.
AutoCAD Mechanical toolset detail view styles are indicated by the
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Only AutoCAD Mechanical toolset detail view styles can inherit text and leader settings from the master settings of the drafting standard.
When the text height of detail view labels and identifiers are set to “By NameOfCurrentDraftingStandard,” they automatically take on a text height that is one size larger than the base height master setting. There by detail view labels and identifiers become larger than dimension, note, and symbol text. If you modify the master settings, the text size of detail view labels and identifiers automatically update.
New detail view styles you create from the Detail View Styles Manager are created as AutoCAD detail view styles. Never as AutoCAD Mechanical toolset detail view styles. AutoCAD Mechanical toolset detail view styles are part of the drafting standard and are created automatically.
AMDETAIL detail views always follow the current detail view style specified as part of the drafting standard. Model documentation detail views use the current detail view style to obtain its default settings. As long as you don't override the default settings model documentation detail views also follow the drafting standard settings used by AMDETAIL detail views.